Triple

T8767210
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Heart of Midlothian E208366 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Reuben Butler
Reuben Butler is a conscientious and morally upright Scottish minister who serves as one of the central figures in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Heart of Midlothian."
E756658 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Reuben Butler | Statement: [The Heart of Midlothian, mainCharacter, Reuben Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reuben Butler
Context triple: [The Heart of Midlothian, mainCharacter, Reuben Butler]
  • A. Reuben Bright
    Reuben Bright is a narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that poignantly portrays a butcher’s unexpected depth of grief and tenderness after his wife’s death.
  • B. Reuben Scott
    Reuben Scott is a character in August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," representing part of the African American experience in early 20th-century Pittsburgh.
  • C. Reuben James
    "Reuben James" is a 1969 country song, popularized by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, that tells the story of a poor but noble man who helped raise an abandoned child.
  • D. Reuben Fenton
    Reuben Fenton was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New York and later as a U.S. Senator, known for his role in the Republican Party during and after the Civil War.
  • E. Reuben Cannon
    Reuben Cannon is a prominent American casting director and film and television producer known for his influential work in Hollywood and frequent collaborations with Tyler Perry.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Reuben Butler
Triple: [The Heart of Midlothian, mainCharacter, Reuben Butler]
Generated description
Reuben Butler is a conscientious and morally upright Scottish minister who serves as one of the central figures in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Heart of Midlothian."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reuben Butler
Target entity description: Reuben Butler is a conscientious and morally upright Scottish minister who serves as one of the central figures in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Heart of Midlothian."
  • A. Reuben Bright
    Reuben Bright is a narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that poignantly portrays a butcher’s unexpected depth of grief and tenderness after his wife’s death.
  • B. Reuben Scott
    Reuben Scott is a character in August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," representing part of the African American experience in early 20th-century Pittsburgh.
  • C. Reuben James
    "Reuben James" is a 1969 country song, popularized by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, that tells the story of a poor but noble man who helped raise an abandoned child.
  • D. Reuben Fenton
    Reuben Fenton was a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New York and later as a U.S. Senator, known for his role in the Republican Party during and after the Civil War.
  • E. Reuben Cannon
    Reuben Cannon is a prominent American casting director and film and television producer known for his influential work in Hollywood and frequent collaborations with Tyler Perry.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ca835df7e08190ac875664cca8f9ca completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5eeae70c8190adc2bc2846da0fbf completed March 31, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf51a78a98819083ed4e214cd1fd22 completed April 3, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf5323b7c08190819de236e01ce9d3 completed April 3, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf54a056408190bd536f79e3ec33be completed April 3, 2026, 5:48 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:41 p.m.